SPRINGFIELD - Workers with Western Massachusetts Electric Co. are responding to separate outages reported Tuesday night in parts of Springfield, Agawam and Easthampton.

There were also scattered outages in Southampton and West Springfield.

The Springfield outage was the most serious, affecting more than 1,500 customers along Dickinson Street in the Forest Park neighborhood. As of 9:15 p.m., power to all but 568 had been restored, said WMECO spokesman Jeff Tilghman.

He said the outage was caused by a blown transformer on top of a pole on Dickinson Street. "Workers are trying to restore power as quickly and as a safely as they can," he said.

In Agawam, an unknown disruption on Cherry Lane caused 56 customers to lose power. Tilghman said power is expected back at around midnight.

Close to 450 customers were without power in Easthampton more than 3 hours after an outage was reported at 6:30 p.m. Tilghman said it was unclear was caused it. Power was expected to be restored sometime after 10 p.m., he said.